Developer Illuminate Labs has announced the release of Turtle, a new Maya lighting renderer that was in Beta testing at more than 200 sites during the last year.

Turtle 1.0 can render scenes both within Maya and as a stand-alone application. It features ray-tracing and global illumination algorithms called LiquidLight, 3D motion blur, true depth-of-field, animation and batch rendering, support for Maya shading networks and more.